Ep. 27: High Ground Beef Chips - Always Take the High Ground
In Pursuit
MeatEater
4.9 • 6.8K Ratings
🗓️ 12 February 2026
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
On this episode of In Pursuit with Rich Froning, we’ve got the guys from High Ground Beef Chips in the studio, Dillon Larson and Josh McCandless. It started with a problem that kicked it all off: finding real, lightweight nutrition on the move between deployments, long days, and no patience for filler ingredients. Dillon breaks down why they built High Ground as a meat chip: simple label, big protein, whole-food fuel that actually works in the backcountry.
From there, the conversation goes into why hunting/training with the boys can be a reset when life gets loud. We also get the meaning behind the name High Ground and their bigger goal: supporting Gold Star families and telling the stories that shouldn’t get forgotten.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:04.4 | Not protein powder and water bottles, our platoon chief at the time, |
| 0:07.3 | he would take plastic water bottles and 550 cord to the outside of his kit. |
| 0:12.7 | Not chill. |
| 0:13.3 | And he might see this one day, so like he's a great man. |
| 0:19.3 | He is a great man, but we would all make fun of him because on nods you could you could always see where he was yeah because they would just be they were just bouncing on his kids but it was like it was like for ease of access and we're like dude what are you doing yeah anything else but you're trying to find lightweight nutrition basically basically. You know, and then it's been ever |
| 0:37.8 | since then, and I'll open it up to Josh, too, because I'm talking forever, ever since then, |
| 0:41.4 | it's just been the relentless pursuit of not letting, like, people in the supply chain or the |
| 0:49.0 | market, yeah, like, hey, we can do it for cheaper if we put this in there, if we're in this way. |
| 0:53.9 | It's been a real battle to, like, keep it, it for cheaper if we put this in there this way it's been a real battle |
| 0:55.1 | to like keep it it's that simple you know which is crazy out here the stakes are real effective |
| 1:05.6 | preparation starts with fitness but it requires so much more this This show explores the tools, knowledge, resilience, and skills needed to be ready when it matters the most. |
| 1:17.3 | Join me, Rich Broning, as we apply the decades of wisdom I have gained through training |
| 1:22.1 | and competition to hunting in the backcountry. |
| 1:26.0 | This is In Pursuit. Brought to you by Mountain backcountry. This is in pursuit. |
| 1:29.0 | Brought to you by Mountain Ops. |
| 1:33.2 | In collaboration with Mayhem Hunt. |
| 1:36.1 | Obviously, we have some high ground ships right here. |
| 1:37.8 | We have the guys from high ground here with us. |
| 1:40.6 | Yeah, I'll let you guys kind of kicked off. |
| 1:42.2 | Really, I don't know, let's talk about, I guess, high ground to start, and then we can kind of see where it rolls from there. I think it's cool, I'll let you guys kind of kicked off and really just, I don't know, let's talk about, I guess, high ground to start and then we can kind of see where it rolls from there. |
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